Family, friends take up fundraising to help loved ones fighting disease

5:25 PM,
May 13, 2013

Karen Michler holds greeting cards that she started making to help raise money for Ring14 at her home in West Lafayette.

Written by

MaryJane Slaby

Baking tins lined the counters. On the dining room table, cupcakes filled casserole dishes surrounded by auction items. In the living room, more auction items covered the couches, tables and floor.

It was the day before the annual Ring14 charity dinner, and the details were falling in place.

Yssa DeWoody of Lafayette, president and founder of Ring14 USA Outreach, had done this once before. But Karen Michler, who had filled her West Lafayette home with the desserts and auction items, was new to Ring14 fundraising. After the first Ring14 dinner, where she learned about the disease that ...